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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Mountain in Colombia


Earthquake location 13.0096S, -81.2963WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Mountain in Colombia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -81.2963 West, latitude 13.0096 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:49:29 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/18 / 2018-11-29 04:49:29 / November 29, 2018 @ 4:49 am. Event id: us1000hxrz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hxrz.

Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Andrés (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 40 km S of Mountain, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.2963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0096° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km S of Mountain, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-29 04:49:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-29 05:08:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.042 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hxrz Id of event.
Event Code 1000hxrz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hxrz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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